Word: josepha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
...Pinega, Josepha Olechny worked as a woodcutter in winter and a farm laborer in summer. In 1941 Stalin made an agreement with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train...
Before boarding the transport in Naples harbor last week, Jan Olechny sold a few articles of clothing, bought some lemons as a gift for his family. Aboard ship an American officer told him Josepha and Riszard were eating lunch below desk. "I am sorry," he said, "you 11 have to wait." Obediently Jan sat down and waited...
...minutes later, for the first time in ten years, Jan came face to face with Josepha and his son, who had grown so tall that he scarcely knew him. For a moment the Olechnys stood still, then they rushed weeping into each other's arms. Last week they prepared to go to Canada, which had accepted them as farmer immigrants. The Olechnys hoped it would be their last trip for a while...
Mozart: Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...